Algae outbreak \’cost £170 million\’

ECHOES of another outbreak involving micro-organisms almost a year ago have come back to haunt the salmon farming sector. A report by the seafood database Kontali shows that the algae attack which hit a number of fish farms in the north of Norway last May cost the sector up to 2.45 billion kroner – or…

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Algae outbreak \’cost £170 million\’

ECHOES of another outbreak involving micro-organisms almost a year ago have come back to haunt the salmon farming sector. A report by the seafood database Kontali shows that the algae attack which hit a number of fish farms in the north of Norway last May cost the sector up to 2.45 billion kroner – or…

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Power plants ‘may have caused algae outbreak’

THE algae bloom outbreak which cost several Norwegian salmon farming companies dearly this year was partly caused by hydro-electric power plants in the area, a leading marine scientist has claimed. Millions of fish worth at least 2.5 billion kroner were lost during May and June in what was described as the worst algae attack for…

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